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Making you SD card work with your Ubuntu / Linux Laptop or Desktop

You insert you SD card in your Ubuntu PC and it simply does not work. Most probably your kernel has not loaded module required for recognizing your SD card.

You must run all commands in this post as root.[Optional] : To run commands as root run command "sudo su root" and to switch user as root.First check if your PC detects the SD Card controller.For that run commandlspci | grep -i sd

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It worked for me, although I keep seeing the "mmc0: error -123 whilst initializing SD card" message on dmesg and it works from time to time, randomly. I mean it works only after inserting, then removing, then re-inserting the SD card several times. Anyway thanks for the very helpful tip!